Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab 1185
Auxbuss sends us to New Scientist for news sure to perplex and confound creationists: scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. "A major evolutionary innovation has unfurled right in front of researchers' eyes. It's the first time evolution has been caught in the act of making such a rare and complex new trait. And because the species in question is a bacterium, scientists have been able to replay history to show how this evolutionary novelty grew from the accumulation of unpredictable, chance events."
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Wasn't that already proven with the rise of homo sapiens?
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Okay... I was just saying
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I can't wait for God's press release on this one.
Ha! This is just how God test his flock. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perplex and Confound? (Score:5, Funny)
You can't even see a bacteria with your own eye, so this can't be real.
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Doesn't disprove creationism (Score:2, Funny)
Show me how how the leafy sea dragon developed its leafiness and I might just start to believe in Evolution (with a big E), othewise, you are just seeing persistent change from generation to generation that eventually produces something useful.
Or, maybe if the bacterium suddenly developed the ability to feed on their glass petri dishes.
Otherwise, neither side should be to quick to exclaim or disclaim anything.
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I for one...
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I'm just a bill.
Yes, I'm only a bill.
And I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it's a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It's a long, long wait
While I'm sitting in committee,
But I know I'll be a law some day
At least I hope and pray that I will
But today I am still just a bill.
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_Nothing_ perplexes or confounds creationists.,
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First off, if you're putting a lime on your beer bottle, you're doing it wrong.
Secondly, if your opened beer bottle still contains beer over the course of the hours it takes for bacteria to colonize it (lime or no lime), you're doing it really wrong.
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Since we haven't had a good car analogy in this thread yet:
Microevolution would be if you drive your car across town. This has been proven so many times that by now everyone accepts it as true.
Macroevolution would be if you could drive your car all the way to another country. This is, as everyone in America knows, impossible.
Come to think of it, this analogy could help explain why they hardly ever have these kinds of debates in Europe, too...
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Fortunately they're a relatively small group. And if they keep doing as their belief tells them, they'll get smaller still.
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Easy. The days in Genesis 1 are long ages of time. In fact Gleason Archer, probably the best Hebrew scholar of modern times, has argued that the way the text is worded rules out the calendar-day theory. Also there are demonstrable gaps in the genealogies, so I have no problem with humans being on earth tens of thousands of years.
When you look at the whole Bible, including everything it says on Creation, it describes Big Bang cosmology fairly accurately (well not the science of the BB itself of course, but the effects of a BB universe).
> Wouldn't it be easier to take it from a new standpoint
I've done that, and to me the Bible describes reality more consistently than other worldviews.
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That rules out american beer then. (Score:3, Funny)
They're both f***** close to water.